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80 SHELBY AND HIS MEN; OR,
-both brigades forming a division commanded by General
Marmaduke.
Shelby broke ground first with unceasing activity. The sec-
ond day after the arrival at Cane Hill, Lieutenant Arthur Mc-
Coy, with fifty picked men, was sent to look up one hundred
Pins, reported to be encamped near a little town twenty miles in
the Cherokee Nation. This Arthur McCoy was a gay, dashing
devil-may-care St. Louisan, who joined the old 1st Missouri Infan-
try, Bowen's immortal regiment, Duffee's company, in St. Louis,
and had won red laurels at Shiloh, but being attracted by the ris-
ing starof Shelby's genius, came over to join his galaxy of knights.
Like some of the cuirassiers of Napoleon's Old Guard, he always
doffed his plumed hat to his adversary just as he murmured
through his moustache, "En garde." McCoy, above all others, suit-
ed exactly for the enterprise, and ferreting out, by good luck, an
excellent guide, he succeeded in completely surprising the Indian
encampment. The sleepy pickets were cut off and sabered silent-
ly. The doomed warriors lay rolled up in their blankets along-
side of a heavy rail fence, which had been fired in a hundred cor-
ners to give heat during the night, when the silent horsemen rode
upon them without the ringing of a musket. The work, short
and bloody, lasted only a few moments. McCoy sabered seven
with his own hand, and but ten of the whole number escaped.
The next morning he rode quietly into camp with not a rose on
his fresh blooming face withered or fled.
On his return, Lieutenant J. L. Bledsoe, of Rathbun's com-
pany, was sent out with twenty men to beat up the 6th Kansas
and find how their position stood. The 6th, however, turned sud-
denly on this small scout and drove it in quite hurriedly, Bledsoe
fighting like a tiger and forming to fire on every convenient hill.
Jeans' regiment swarmed out thick as bees to succor Bledsoe, and
the 6th was attacked in turn so furiously, that they were fain to
scamper away under the shadow of Blunt's somber shield, leaving
nineteen of their jayhawkers pale and bloody along the roadsides.
Again the next morning, even before the most industrious sol-
dier would have risen in all probability from his frosty blankets,
a young and beautiful girl, Miss Susan McClellan, a fair rebel liv-
ing four miles to the west of Cane Hill, came tripping into camp,
bare-headed and en deshabille, to inform Colonel Shelby that six
hundred Federal cavalry, from the direction of Fort Smith, had
just passed her father's house to surprise him. The roses on her
cheeks deepened beneath the admiring gaze of her auditors, but
her fine eyes never quailed nor her patriotic earnestness wavered.
Object Description
| Title | Shelby and his men, or, the war in the west |
| Author | Edwards, John N. (John Newman), 1839-1889 |
| Subject.LCSH |
Shelby, Joseph Orville, 1830-1897 Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Arkansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Coverage | United State -- Missouri |
| Source |
Digital reproduction based on reprint edition republished by his wife Jennie Edwards, Kansas City, Mo. : Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1897 Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio : Miami printing and publishing, 1867. |
| Language | English |
| Date.Original | 1897 |
| Date.Digital | 2003? |
| Type |
Books and pamphlets |
| Format | JPEG |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact contributing institution for information. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library Special Collection, University of Missouri - Columbia at (573) 882-0076 or email: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
Description
| Title | civk000028p0080 |
| Description | 80 SHELBY AND HIS MEN; OR, -both brigades forming a division commanded by General Marmaduke. Shelby broke ground first with unceasing activity. The sec- ond day after the arrival at Cane Hill, Lieutenant Arthur Mc- Coy, with fifty picked men, was sent to look up one hundred Pins, reported to be encamped near a little town twenty miles in the Cherokee Nation. This Arthur McCoy was a gay, dashing devil-may-care St. Louisan, who joined the old 1st Missouri Infan- try, Bowen's immortal regiment, Duffee's company, in St. Louis, and had won red laurels at Shiloh, but being attracted by the ris- ing starof Shelby's genius, came over to join his galaxy of knights. Like some of the cuirassiers of Napoleon's Old Guard, he always doffed his plumed hat to his adversary just as he murmured through his moustache, "En garde." McCoy, above all others, suit- ed exactly for the enterprise, and ferreting out, by good luck, an excellent guide, he succeeded in completely surprising the Indian encampment. The sleepy pickets were cut off and sabered silent- ly. The doomed warriors lay rolled up in their blankets along- side of a heavy rail fence, which had been fired in a hundred cor- ners to give heat during the night, when the silent horsemen rode upon them without the ringing of a musket. The work, short and bloody, lasted only a few moments. McCoy sabered seven with his own hand, and but ten of the whole number escaped. The next morning he rode quietly into camp with not a rose on his fresh blooming face withered or fled. On his return, Lieutenant J. L. Bledsoe, of Rathbun's com- pany, was sent out with twenty men to beat up the 6th Kansas and find how their position stood. The 6th, however, turned sud- denly on this small scout and drove it in quite hurriedly, Bledsoe fighting like a tiger and forming to fire on every convenient hill. Jeans' regiment swarmed out thick as bees to succor Bledsoe, and the 6th was attacked in turn so furiously, that they were fain to scamper away under the shadow of Blunt's somber shield, leaving nineteen of their jayhawkers pale and bloody along the roadsides. Again the next morning, even before the most industrious sol- dier would have risen in all probability from his frosty blankets, a young and beautiful girl, Miss Susan McClellan, a fair rebel liv- ing four miles to the west of Cane Hill, came tripping into camp, bare-headed and en deshabille, to inform Colonel Shelby that six hundred Federal cavalry, from the direction of Fort Smith, had just passed her father's house to surprise him. The roses on her cheeks deepened beneath the admiring gaze of her auditors, but her fine eyes never quailed nor her patriotic earnestness wavered. |
| Source | Shelby and His Men |
| Type | Books and monographs |
| Format | JPEG |
| Identifier | civk000028p0080.jpg |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact koppk@umsystem.edu for more information. |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library special collection at: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
